Current approaches in the grading and management of cytokine release syndrome after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 15, Issue , 2019, Pages 323-335

  Riegler, Lara L ^a   Jones, Gavin P ^a   Lee, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoptive cellular immunotherapy; CAR associated neurotoxicity; CD19 CAR T cells; Immune Effector Cell Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome; Leukemia; Tocilizumab

Indexed keywords

ANAKINRA; CORTICOSTEROID; SARILUMAB; SILTUXIMAB;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T-CELL IMMUNOTHERAPY; CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROTOXICITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

EID: 85062978102     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S150524     Document Type: Review

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